Senior Accountant
Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join our dynamic finance team. The Senior Accountant will play a key role in maintaining accurate financial records, preparing reports, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and company policies. This position is responsible for overseeing general accounting activities, month-end and year-end close processes, and providing valuable financial insights to senior management
Principal Accountabilities/Key result areas:
General Ledger
- Responsible for all journal entries to general ledger accounts
- Reconciling general ledger to ensure they represent the true position of the company as they appear on the trial balance.
- Reconciling cashbook and bank statements
- Perform bank transactions, initiate payments for online
- Support in maintaining and reconciling petty cash book, payment vouchers and receipts for all cash issued out.
- Properly recording and managing refunds and credit notes from
- Conducting accurate transfers of stocks to different sales outlets, ensuring proper documentation is recorded, reconciled and signed by the recipient receiving the goods.
- Manage and control staff imprest issued to relevant departmental
Costing
- Working in consultation with the procurement team to ensure accurate cost for all products are captured.
- Cost of sales computation (bills of materials in tally)
Receivables
- Reconciliation of all sales and cash daily and ensuring variances are captured immediately
- Posting of payments received from sales teams to theProcessing and posting vendors invoices to the accounting system
Payable
- Preparing of monthly WTH, VAT, Statutory and other taxation
- Posting of all supplier invoices and confirming that invoice details are well captured & tally with the booking vouchers and purchase orders.
- Ensuring each payment has an ETR, invoice and acknowledgement receipt from
- Properly recording and managing refunds and credit notes from
- Maintaining a list of outgoing payments and confirming they tick against invoices or payment vouchers.
- Confirm the accuracy of supplier invoices by ensuring all supporting documents including delivery notes and lpos authorizing the expenses are in order.
- Preparation and ensuring timely payments g. service providers, government bodies, general expenses.
INVENTORY
- Support in stock management and
- Ensuring stocks are reconciled daily for sales outlets, trucks and warehouse to match with system stock.
- Ensuring variances are captured immediately, concern raised to immediate parts involved and action taken.
- Support in inventory and asset
- Conducting accurate transfers of stocks to different sales outlets, ensuring proper documentation is recorded, reconciled and signed by the recipient receiving the goods.
GENERAL
- Support in setting and implementing internal controls and SOPs in finance
- Ensure all finance transactions are properly
- Act as a point of liaison with internal and external parties to Mwingi Kenya
- Preparing Financial
- Has to be conversant with Tally Prime Accounting system.
Competence for this role - Knowledge; Skills and Experience required for this Role
- A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Business or related field from a recognized university
- Qualified Certified Public Accountant (CPA K) or ACCA
- Member of a professional
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience preferably in a FMCG or manufacturing
- Goal-oriented and has a deep knowledge of accounting and reporting standards
- Experience with ledger
- High integrity
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are advised to send an updated CV ONLY
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Date posted
December 19, 2024
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Closing date
January 9, 2025
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Hiring location
Nairobi
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Offered salary
Negotiable Price
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Career level
Senior Level
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Qualification
Bachelor Degree
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Experience
4 Years
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